He Helped Win the Giants' First Super Bowl. Then He Fought Cancer Twice.

The broken foot that derailed New York Giants offensive tackle Karl Nelson's entire rookie season wound up being a small blip on his radar screen compared to the two bouts with Hodgkin’s disease that came later in his career.

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